In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess: in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city: and in a nearby...
he architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann’s death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives...
Dr Anna Bennett, together with her husband Giles and two young sons, Raphael and Moth, have come to fictional Colsay in the Western Isles, so he can monitor the puffin population and she can finish her book on 18th-century...
BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week – 14th May 2012. When the only gig Mark Wallington’s rhythm and blues band can get is in a nursing home they decide it’s time to call it a day. But then...
Jonathan Coe’s widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their...
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